The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-12-24
IN TEE WORLD OF LABOR.
Specially Compiled for tho Toilersby an Ad-
vocate Man

Specially Compiled for tho Toilersby an Ad-
vocate Man
A number of furnaces In the Lehigh
Valley have been blown ou.
An order to resume work would be an
acceptable Christmas gift for the Lehigh
coal strikers.
The Federation of Labor, a compare
lively new organization, threatens to over
throw the X. of l..
The Lehigh Stove Foundry here closed
down Friday evening. 1t is expected that
work will be resumed during the latter part
OF January.
There is no variation in the condition
of affairs in the Lehigh coal region. Both
parties present a determined front and
claim that they will not give in.
The architects of the country in gen
eral way predict booming year in 1883.
If there be anything against IL the inlu-
ences have not as yet made themselves ap-
parent.
The Reading Company proposes that
when a miner is killed the colliery shall be
idle only on the day of the funeral. The
company will join the men in donating a
percentage of its earnings to the survivors
of the deceased.
The public meeting in GabePs Hall,
last Friday evening, under the auspices CT
the knights of Labor, was very successful
A. A. Hatch, of Franklin township, adj
dressed the audience at length. His re-
marks were well received and highly com
mented on.
The Lehigh Valley company bas ORDER
ed twenty draught locomotives from the
Baldwin Works in Philadelphia. They will
cost 100000. New locomotives are being
Quilt every week at the company's shops
along the line, but the number turned ont
cannot supply the demand.
-Machirists in nearly all lines Of work
say there is no perceptible diminution in
work, that a great deal of business is prom
ised for the winter and spring, that buyers
are not insisting upon unreasonably low
prices, and that material can be purchased
at lower prices now for winter delivery than
they could a month ago. Nearly all mach
nists are carrying more stock in the way
of iron and steel.
If the new Government telegraph
scheme shall 80 through the wire manufac-
turers Will have plenty of business. The
bill asks for ten trunk lines across tie
country, and the charge will be ten cents
per wenty words under five hundred miles
and five cents additional for each addition
al ten words, and for greater distances than
live hundred miles an additional rate of
i've cents for each two hundred and fifty
miles. The telegraph supply people will
welcome this bill, and the telegraphic
workmen will not oppose it.
A Wilkesbame dispatch says that Rev.
the interest of the Lehigh strikers at that
; place on Monday evening. A large audi
ence was expected but at eight o'clock only
about a half dozen people were present.
rhis disgusted the strikers committee, who
we're present, and they put out the lights
and went home. Several members of the
, committee declared that the miners of the
Wyoming Valley had no sympathy Cor the
strikers and that this fact was brought out
very plain by the non-attendance. "On
account of the strike in the lower end,' he
said, ''the men have had steady work and
make good wages, yet when it comes to
helping the poor unfortunates who are the
a., means of of causing this great prosperity in
the wy oming Valley the miners here re-
fuse to lend helping hand If it were
for ha halp VIZ uat frpnt n SpbnNyl i'll
region we would be starving now."
e The following circular has just been
S issued by the committee of appeals for the
e striking Lehigh coal mners THE con
dltion of the miners-their habitations theil
. furniture, their clothes and their commiss
f ariat-proves more forcibly than figures OIL
1 rhetoric can tell that they are the worst
q paid and most oppressed class of skilled
laborers on the face of the earth. Who car
= fullv describe their woes? Who can relate
, the ever-increasing disaPpointments Of
is hopes that meet them every recurring year.
Not they, indeed, nor the ordinary PEN bu
/. the operators can change all this. The!
IS know how, for they reckon the miner
l. Nd5No' hoA Shig W uOilii, lhS hiihN "
the cent, but by the thirtieth of cent
Is Skinned by fractions as small as that, wht
" can wonder that the cream of their labor i
+ TUNED into the bluest milk? And yet from
the very sources which have cause 70
D. years the loudest plaudits for deeds of char
+ Try toward the distressed to 90 forth ema
" M es this iniquity which can cut men
hire down to the infnitesimal part of
nt cent! o, Justice, where art thou? o, Char
At ity, hast thou hidden thyself behind
10 cloud?"